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Este grupo de islas fue descubierto por Colón en su segundo viaje en el año 1493. El reclamó la tierra para España y la llamó "Las Once Mil Vírgenes", probablemente inspirado por la abundancia de picos recordándole las compañeras de Sta. Úrsula. La primera parada de Colón fue en Sta. Cruz; hizo desembarcar a sus hombres para que recogiesen agua fresca, pero sus hombres fueron capturados por los indígenas, los salvajes indios del Caribe. Durante años cien años siguientes, los españoles mostraron muy poco interés por las islas, aparte de las invasiones con el fin de raptar indígenas para que éstos trabajaran en las minas de oro de St. Domingo. De hecho cuando llegaron los colonizadores europeos, después de la derrota de la Armada Española, ya no quedaban indígenas en la isla. Sin embargo, los piratas utilizaban estas islas para esconder sus barcos y sus botines y para esperar a los galeones españoles cargados de tesoros.
Hoy día es un placer visitar estas islas de habla inglesa por pertenecer a USA a muy pocos kilómetros de Pto. Rico de habla española que tienen un gran cariño por España, "La Madre Patria".
The Harbour Services Australia lines vessel, Bambi 4 departing Rous Head Harbour on October 30, 2015 to assist with the berthing of the vehicles carrier, Thalatta at berth No. 11 NQ, Fremantle Port.
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Monino Central Air Force Museum (Moscow) July 2010
The Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name: Bull) was a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was a reverse-engineered copy of the U.S.-made Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
Towards the end of World War II, the Soviet Union saw the need for a strategic bombing capability similar to that of the United States Army Air Forces. The Soviet VVS air arm did have their own-design Petlyakov Pe-8 four-engined "heavy" in service at the start of the war, but only 93 were built by the end of the war as the type had been equipped with unreliable turbocharged V12 diesel engines at the start of its service to give it long range. The U.S. regularly conducted bombing raids on Japan, extremely close to the Soviet Union's borders, from distant Pacific forward bases using B-29 Superfortresses. Joseph Stalin ordered the development of a comparable bomber.
The U.S. twice refused to supply the Soviet Union with B-29s under Lend Lease. However, on four occasions during 1944, individual B-29s made emergency landings in Soviet territory and one crashed after the crew bailed out. In accordance with the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviets were neutral in the Pacific War and the bombers were therefore interned and kept by the Soviets. Despite Soviet neutrality, America demanded the return of the bombers, but the Soviets refused. Three repairable B-29s were flown to Moscow and delivered into Tupolev OKB. One B-29 was dismantled, the second was used for flight tests and training, and the third one was left as a standard for cross-reference. With the Soviet declaration of war against Japan in accordance with the Yalta agreement to enter the war within 90 days of VE day (to allow it time to move its forces from Europe to Asia) at about 11pm on August 8, 1945 -- two days after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and the subsequent entente with Japan ending, the fourth B-29 was returned to the US along with its crew.
Stalin tasked Tupolev with cloning the Superfortress in as short a time as possible instead of continuing with his own comparable ANT-64 or samolet (aircraft) 64, and Soviet industry was to produce 20 copies of the aircraft ready for State acceptance trials in just two years.
The Soviet Union used the metric system, thus sheet aluminum in thicknesses matching the B-29's imperial measurements were unavailable. The corresponding metric-gauge metal was of different thicknesses. Alloys and other materials new to the Soviet Union had to be brought into production. Extensive re-engineering had to take place to compensate for the differences, and Soviet official strength margins had to be decreased to avoid further redesign,[9] yet despite these challenges the prototype Tu-4 only weighed about 750 lb (340 kg) more than the B-29, a difference of less than 1%.
The engineers and suppliers of components were under pressure from Tupolev, Stalin, and the government to create an exact clone of the original B-29 to facilitate production and Tupolev had to overcome substantial resistance in favor of using equipment that was not only already in production but in some cases better than the American version. Each component made and each alteration was scrutinized and was subject to a lengthy bureaucratic process. Differences were limited to the engines, the defensive weapons, the radio (a later model used in lend-lease B-25s was used in place of the radio in the interned B-29s) and the identification friend or foe (IFF) system – the American IFF being unsuitable. The Soviet engine, the Shvetsov ASh-73 was a development of the Wright R-1820 but was not otherwise related to the B-29s Wright R-3350. and the remote-controlled gun turrets were redesigned to accommodate the harder hitting and longer ranged Soviet Nudelman NS-23 23mm cannon. Kerber, Tupolev's deputy at the time, recalled in his memoirs that engineers needed authorization from a high-ranking general to use Soviet-made parachutes. Additional changes were made as a result of problems encountered during testing, related to engine and propeller failures and equipment changes were made throughout the aircraft's service life. Although it has been widely quoted, the Tu-4 did not have a random hole drilled in the wing either to emulate a bullet hole or because a Boeing engineer made a mistake – the Russians had three complete aircraft and the wreckage of a fourth and the likelihood of all four having a hole in the same place is too small to be credible. The aircraft included 1 Boeing-Witchita −5-BW, 2 Boeing-Witchita −15-BWs and the wreckage of 1 Boeing-Renton −1-BN – three different models from two different production lines. Only one of the 4 had de-icing boots as used on the Tu-4.
The Tu-4 first flew on 19 May 1947, piloted by test pilot Nikolai Rybko. Serial production started immediately, and the type entered large-scale service in 1949. Entry into service of the Tu-4 threw the USAF into a panic, since the Tu-4 possessed sufficient range to attack Chicago or Los Angeles on a one-way mission, and this may have informed the maneuvers and air combat practice conducted by US and British air forces in 1948 involving fleets of B-29s. Some attempts to develop midair refueling systems were made to extend the bomber's range, but these were fitted to only a few aircraft.
The aircraft was first displayed during a flyover at the Aviation Day parade on 3 August 1947 at the Tushino Airport in Moscow. Three aircraft flew overhead. It was assumed that these were merely the three B-29 bombers that were known to have been diverted to the USSR during World War II. Minutes later a fourth aircraft appeared. Western analysts realized that the Soviets must have reverse-engineered the B-29. The appearance of an obviously Superfortress-derived Tu-70 transport over the crowd removed any doubt about the success of the reverse-engineering.
Eight hundred and forty-seven Tu-4s had been built when production ended in the Soviet Union in 1952, some going to China during the later 1950s. Many experimental variants were built and the valuable experience launched the Soviet strategic bomber program. Tu-4s were withdrawn in the 1960s, being replaced by more advanced aircraft: the Tupolev Tu-16 (starting in 1954) and the Tupolev Tu-95 (starting in 1956). By the beginning of the 1960s, the only Tu-4s still operated by the Soviets were used for transport or airborne laboratory purposes. A Tu-4A was the first Soviet aircraft to drop a nuclear weapon, the RDS-1.
So this is stranger #4 :)
I've been at the beach all day soaking the rare scandinavian sun. So when I finally got around to take my daily portrait it was 9.30 in the evening. Non the less I picked out this fine man from afar! I truly have a thing for beards! He wanted to know what the project was about. So I told him and he agreed :) Afterwards we talked a little about beards - how I like to grow mine until they drives me nuts - He got inspired to grow his just like the bass player of his favourite band.
I promise that my next portrait will be beardless ;)
Also my last portrait got explored - this is the first time I've tried that!! I'm kind of very excited about that :)
This picture is #4 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Wasteland : Vol 4 : The Green Lake
Taken at some construction site, my friend went there to shoot first that's how i know this place. Apparently some chemical change made the water looks green.
I know the composition is odd, i had to do some climbing to get this shot, and the ground was full of rocks too.
Vol 1 : www.flickr.com/photos/absolutechic/1293218521/
Vol 2 : www.flickr.com/photos/absolutechic/1301409203/
Vol 3 : www.flickr.com/photos/absolutechic/1315627835/
Early morning arrival in Dominica. Photos from our last visit are in our Dominica album at www.flickr.com/photos/wrh40/albums/72157640717299134/ .
The first generation iPhone (2g), the third generation iPhone (3GS), and the fourth generation iPhone (4). The straight edges of the face of the iPhone 4 give the illusion of a larger black bezel around the screen, notably above and below the screen.
The curvature in the first three generations gave the illusion that the bezel disappeared earlier. The second and third generations (3G and 3GS) had much more gradual curves in the back, making the phone look thinner when viewed from the front and sides.
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Model: Salma.
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Sunday Dressing in my Long Sleeved Leather Top...High Waistband Leather Skirt...Black Platform Knee-High Boots and Black Leather Gloves...4
UT 526.042 de Südostbahn asegurando un servicio S-4 Uznach-St Gallen-Uznach circulando entre Busch SG y Sargans. Sevelen 14/05/2018
Sudostbahn 526.042 EMU ensuring a service S-4 Uznach-St. Gallen-Uznach circulating among Busch SG and Sargans. Sevelen 14/05/2018
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Week 4 : Flowers.
If you've been following my work long enough to know my style, you'll know how much I love flowers. I already had a lot of ideas in mind, made up around the concept of flowers so this wasn't hard. The hard part was me being clumsy - accidentally scraped my knee and got a minor cut on my finger. But other than that, all is good!
Happy Chinese New Year! Best wishes for the year of the horse.
Red 1954 Wolseley 4/44 - NGA 387 - seen at the National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Scotland's "Back to the 50s" event, May 2014.
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Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 @ BookaTrack, Circuit Park Zandvoort, The Netherlands.
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The 4 jets came together… in a Sci-Fi way, it looks like 1 aircraft.
Supposedly, if I heard the announcer correctly… The top 3 pilots are looking 90 degrees at pilot 1 who is looking straight.
I have said it, but I will say it again… their precision is simply amazing! That's A LOT of trust right there!!!
ZERO 4
0的背後是有很多無名英雄在防疫工作崗位上克盡職責換來的成果，台灣No.1。
#連續4天0確診
#台灣加油
#TaiwanCanHelp
#HERO
#圓山飯店
The Story of The Grand Hotel
圓山大飯店創立於民國41年（西元1952年），十四層宮殿式大樓，巍峨高聳於圓山之腰，前臨基隆河、後倚陽明山東望松山、西眺淡水。飯店紅柱金瓦氣勢宏偉的外觀，襯托富麗堂皇的古典氣氛，傳達了東方的藝術之美，是台北市的代表地標之ㄧ，聞名世界。是中外人士觀光住宿或商務會議的最佳選擇。
The Grand Hotel was established in 1952. Supported by red columns and with golden roof tiling, the Grand Hotel stands midway up Yuanshan, much like a majestic 14-storey palace. Facing Keelung River, with Yangming Mountain to its, the hotel offers an amazing view of Songshan District to the East and Danshui to the West. The Grand Hotel, structured through western construction methods, is decorated with elegant classical Chinese details. This fusion of East and West makes the hotel a fine expression of Chinese art upon a foundation of modern western architecture. No matter if visitors are tourists or business men, all those who stop by and marvel at the architectural beauty of the hotel would no doubt want to reserve for themselves a wonderful stay.
飯店擁有500間客房，白天可鳥瞰台北市的繁華市容，夜晚可一覽台北市的寧靜夜景，讓時間穿越空間，讓古典交錯現代，是圓山飯店提供給貴賓的絕妙享受。飯店內設有精緻美食料理餐廳，提供中、西、日式佳餚的極致享受。圓山大飯店提供五星級的優質設施與服務。
The hotel is equipped with 500 rooms which offer a birds-eye-view of bustling Taipei in the day and a serene city in the night. The timeless joy of observing a modern city in a classic Chinese guest room is simply amazing. The Grand Hotel offers a variety of dining choices, including Chinese, Western and Japanese restaurants serving cuisine of supreme quality.